I am furious with the school LONG UPDATE LAST PAGE

[wvjules]

What is the 'safety issue' you keep bringing up!?!?!

 

[Marseeya]

I'll admit I haven't read the whole thread, but here in my district the school requires a parent to escort a child to/from the bus, especially little ones like the OP's. If a parent isn't there to meet the bus in the afternoon, the driver isn't allowed to let that child off the bus and takes them back to school. So here, you have to go to the bus, no choice really.

It's a good thing the bus company is using common sense for the parents who have none!

Our drivers are the same way, and they have taken kids back to the school before. It almost happened with my DD once! She was involved in an after school reading program, and one day they sent her home on her reading day, so nobody was there to meet her at the bus stop. The driver wasn't going to let her off the bus, but my BIL happened to be there to pick up my niece, so the bus driver let her go with him, but only because he absolutely knew that my sister and I are close.

 

[Alicnwondrln]

The school said there are several factors
1. no sidewalks
2. length of the walk usually stops are the street where the child lives the beginning, middle or the end ours is almost 3 blocks away
3. can you see the stop from your hosue
4. the age of the child once they hit 5th grade the school excepts kids to get themsleves to the bus, so if its a couple blocks away then they feel the kids are old enough
based on this the school safety officer and the man who sets the route says we are considered a safety issue as we dont meet any of these

 

[Tigger&Belle]

I do think that your transportation office handled it poorly. They should have told you that they would look into the matter, not that you would get the service. Personally, I do not think that you should get the service, for the reasons that I already stated, but they should not have led you on, either. I think that, when you get your car back, you should simply drive to the bus stop. If any questions you simply tell them that it's too cold for your little one and that since they will not pick your son up from your house that this is your only other option. Park in such a way that you are not blocking traffic and then don't give it another thought.

 

[Alicnwondrln]

I do think that your transportation office handled it poorly. They should have told you that they would look into the matter, not that you would get the service. Personally, I do not think that you should get the service, for the reasons that I already stated, but they should not have led you on, either. I think that, when you get your car back, you should simply drive to the bus stop. If any questions you simply tell them that it's too cold for your little one and that since they will not pick your son up from your house that this is your only other option. Park in such a way that you are not blocking traffic and then don't give it another thought.

thanks
my car was never in the way so i will be driving it again when i get it back oh yeah im not its not fixable and we have to buy a new car
we will figure it out

 

[Feralpeg]

As long as there aren't any no parking signs near the bus stop, I don't see how they can stop you from driving to the stop. Parents drive to the bus stop all the time near me. Last year, I drove DD to her bus stop (about 4 blocks from our house) every day. As long as you are not blocking the bus from stopping, I don't see that they can do anything about it.

 

[Mskanga]

I just don't understand , I don't live in a cul de sac but I live in one of the two access roads in my community . When our roads were private school buses never came this way but ambulances , firetrucks and police did. Now the roads are township roads and everyone goes in and out this way , it took us 9 years to get this accomplished , but my oldest in middle school still has to walk 4 blocks to get on the bus. The school BTW is 7 miles away.
Trust me when I say our transportation office is screwed up , we had misshaps from missed bus stops because sub drivers were given the wrong maps , to kids being dropped off in the wrong bus stop for many different reasons, I have ended up picking up extra kids and thank god I work for the school district , we had an issue with two lost kids who did not know where they had to go and when I called the school , immediately the principal knew that the kids were safe and was able to re-assure the parents that both children were safe , both of them second graders.
I have had my daughter dropped off in a different bus stop from the one they told me because the driver did not know that my daughter's bus stop was a new one. The reason? It was posted on our of their computer system but not the other.
We pay a lot of taxes too but I also know that bussing is a priviledge , not a right.